Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[Full of bull(s)]

 

[Hawthorn]

That’s not a total disaster by the sound of it? Only a few pence down?

Back 10p on the week

 

[Northeastfarmer]

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Chicken a luxury….someone must be deranged…if it’s as dear as steak then beef will be going up rapidly….

 

[hendrebc]

Ludlow hoggs 2.76sqq 750 in

Quality would be dipping a fair bit now

That's not so bad. The quality of what I might go through to go tomorrow wouldn't be the best.

 

[Stw88]

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Can only be a good thing for beef and lamb.

 

[hendrebc]

Chicken a luxury….someone must be deranged…if it’s as dear as steak then beef will be going up rapidly….

It always was historically. One of the promises of one American president in the early 1900s was a chicken in every pot it was so expensive it would be like promising everyone now could afford to eat lobster. No one could afford to feed corn to poultry its why they were all slaughtered for Christmas (and thanksgiving in America) as you couldn't carry them any further into winter feeding them grain. Beef and sheep could be kept all winter on some sort of grazing and cheaper hay.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

It always was historically. One of the promises of one American president in the early 1900s was a chicken in every pot it was so expensive it would be like promising everyone now could afford to eat lobster. No one could afford to feed corn to poultry its why they were all slaughtered for Christmas (and thanksgiving in America) as you couldn't carry them any further into winter feeding them grain. Beef and sheep could be kept all winter on some sort of grazing and cheaper hay.

Let’s hope it gets as dear as beef and everyone eats beef instead

 

[Mc115reed]

Last wedding I went to they sat me with 11 royal ag collage students, they learnt more about sheep farming in the evening than they could ever at uni. I drank 3 bottles of red wine, punched one in the face and promptly fell asleep. That was a good wedding.

Now that sounds like my kinda wedding

 

[Henarar]

Im not from jockistan man im from the grim north and sound like this .

I know that's why I put it was you

 

[sherg]

Anyone sold any cull ewes or hoggs yet today?

Better go in Welshpool than last week

 

[sherg]

Better go in Welshpool than last week

Just waiting for @piper80 to put his trade up, taught him everything he knows

 

[sherg]

Chicken a luxury….someone must be deranged…if it’s as dear as steak then beef will be going up rapidly….

People seem to forget that beef cattle will be converting concentrates at 7 to 1, chickens will do it at 1.5 to 1, if chicken goes up like that beef will need to go through the roof

 

[jendan]

People seem to forget that beef cattle will be converting concentrates at 7 to 1, chickens will do it at 1.5 to 1, if chicken goes up like that beef will need to go through the roof

What about native breed cattle that can get fat off grass? Chickens cant do that.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

What about native breed cattle that can get fat off grass? Chickens cant do that.

I don’t think the country will be fed off native bred cattle…

 

[sherg]

What about native breed cattle that can get fat off grass? Chickens cant do that.

Let's be honest on the grand scheme of things its niche, there won't be many finished cattle that haven't eaten a ton

 

[jendan]

I don’t think the country will be fed off native bred cattle…

Well we always used to be. There could be a big return to that way.It doesnt look as if £300/ton grain is going to end any time soon.

 

[piper80]

Just waiting for @piper80 to put his trade up, taught him everything he knows

 

[Gedd]

Well we always used to be. There could be a big return to that way.It doesnt look as if £300/ton grain is going to end any time soon.

Keep thinking i will try a pen of angus bullocks at grass just cant bring myself to buy them when your used to continentals

 

[livestock 1]

People seem to forget that beef cattle will be converting concentrates at 7 to 1, chickens will do it at 1.5 to 1, if chicken goes up like that beef will need to go through the roof

Only bit to add to that is chickens indoors need a bit more electricity and bio security and the 7:1 cattle can or will have eaten some grass so the end figure will look much better than that

 

[neilo]

I had a first at Welshpool today. Only took 19 as nearly out now, all 47-48kg at home yesterday afternoon. The mart calculator must have been broken, as they insisted they were 55kg. One exlana I put separate was weighed about right, at 46kg. I'd normally have been glad of the extra weight...

The 55kg ones (all continentals) made £128, apart from a toother that made £105, and the shedder made £115.